Friday Update - Saturday Edition

The Council of Europe's human rights commissioner gave Poland a failing grade in human rights due in large part to their policies and rhetoric towards gays and lesbians. (International Herald-Tribune)

The Senate Appropriations committee passed a bill that increased funding to fight diseases, like AIDS, in developing countries, and the House voted to maintain a needle-exchange program in DC and eliminate federal funding for the DC domestic partnership registry. (Washington Post)

Former CBS producer Richard N. Jefferson is suing his former employer, accusing them of firing him for complaining about anti-gay harassment. (Newsday)

The city of Kalamazoo will continue to provide domestic partner benefits for the same-sex partners of city employees despite a Michigan state Supreme Court ruling. (Kalamazoo Gazette)

Bilerico just got rated NC17 by Mingle2 because we've used the words "gay", "lesbian", and "queer" a lot. Check it out:

Gore Vidal is suing Edmond White for writing a play that implies that he had a sexual relationship with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. (365gay.com)

A new study from the University of California at Davis found that nearly four in 10 gay men and about one in eight lesbians and bisexuals. (UCDavis.edu)

A Philadelphia corrections officer lost his job for forcing two women to put on a sex show for him. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

The British military issued an apology for expelling gays and lesbians in the past. (PinkNews)

Liberal PM Joe Comuzzi became a conservative Tory in Canada over several issues, one of which was same-sex marriage. (Globe and Mail)

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Wow! Could you please collect all my previous comments and posts into one area and have them rated separately? I won't re-list all the "dirty" words I've used ... that might cause Bilerico to be re-rated as "triple-X"!!

Forgive me, I thought this was a GLBT-oriented blog ... not a day-care center.

P.S. The apology from the British military is a good start. While the British government is in an apologetic mode, now might be a good time for them to issue an apology for harrassing genius mathematician, war intelligence hero, and the "Father of Modern Computing" Alan Turing into committing suicide because he was gay.